African Studies 2018

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L A N G U A G E & L I T E R AT U R E Death and Compassion

Natures of Africa

The Elephant in Southern African Literature

Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms

DAN WYLIE

Edited by F. FIONA MOOLLA

Examines what literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them.

One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media.

$30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4218-7

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Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication A South African Perspective Edited by RUSSELL KASCHULA, PAMELA MASEKO, and H. EKKEHARD WOLFF

An in-depth look at the changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society.

Losing the Plot Crime, Reality and Fiction in Postapartheid South African Writing LEON DE KOCK

A well-known scholar and writer’s lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing. $30.00 • 276 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4964-3

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Accented Futures

The Disorder of Things

Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid

A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah

CARLI COETZEE

JOHN MASTERSON

Explores relationships created by the use of language to convey knowledge, particularly in translation.

A reading of the Somali novelist through the prism of the French philosopher.

$30.00 • 200 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4740-3

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Like Family STAY CONNECTED

Domestic workers in South African History and Literature ENA JANSEN

Ena Jansen interrogates the historical and literary representation of female domestic workers who occupy precarious positions in an unequal society in South Africa. $35.00 • 416 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-351-1

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BIOGRAPHIES, MEMOIRS, & LETTERS Lie on Your Wounds

Memory Against Forgetting

Selected Prison Letters by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

Memoir of a Time in South African Politics 1938-1964

Edited by DEREK HOOK

Letters from prominent South African political activist Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.

RUSTY BERNSTEIN

This classic text, first published in 1999, is Rusty Bernstein’s remarkable memoir of a life in South African resistance politics.

$35.00 • 360 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4240-8

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The Backroom Boy

Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist

Andrew Mlangeni’s Story MANDLA MATHEBULA

The story of an ANC elder and a well-researched historical record overlaid with intensely personal reflections which intersect with the political narrative.

A Memoir N. CHABANI MANGANYI

Manganyi’s life story traces the twists and turns of his journey from humble beginnings in Limpopo, to Yale University.

$30.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4086-2

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The Cape Radicals Intellectual and Political Thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s to 1960s Edited by CRAIN SOUDIEN

Crain Soudien highlights the young intellectuals in the Cape who were at the forefront of redefining the debates around power and social difference in a racially divided society. $30.00 • 288 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-77614-317-7

ART & PERFORMANCE Acts of Transgression Contemporary Live Art in South Africa Edited by JAY PATHER and CATHERINE BOULLE

An illustrated collection of 15 essays by respected researchers that critically probes where live art and socio-political turbulence intersect $35.00 • 378 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-279-8

FORTHCOMING

Visionary Animal RENAUD EGO Translated by DEKE DUSINBERRE

This highly illustrated collection of essays on themes such as rain animals and therianthropes takes stock of our current knowledge of rock art and proposes a new grid of reading. $80.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4226-2 NOVEMBER 2018

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SOCIOLOGY I Want to Go Home Forever

Changing Space, Changing City

Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis

Johannesburg After Apartheid

Edited by LOREN B. LANDAU and TANYA PAMPALONE

Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg. $30.00 • 240 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4221-7

Edited by ALISON TODES, CHRIS WRAY, GRAEME GOTZ, and PHILIP HARRISON

A richly illustrated and detailed empirical analysis of changes in the city’s physical space and and the social identities forged within specific neighborhoods. $40.00 • 656 PAGES CLOTH • 978-1-8681-4765-6

Labour Beyond Cosatu

Organise or Die?

Mapping the Rupture in South Africa’s Labour Landscape

Democracy and Leadership in South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers

Edited by ANDRIES BEZUIDENHOUT and MALEHOKO TSHOAEDI

Rebellions and conflicts in the trade unions, and rivalries between Cosatu affiliates in South Africa. $35.00 • 272 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4053-4

RAPHAËL BOTIVEAU

The story of one of the leading trade unions in South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers, and its role in the struggle against white minority rule. $40.00 • 360 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-776-14204-0

ANTHROPOLOGY Dress as Social Relations

Healing the Exposed Being

An Interpretation of Bushman Dress

A South African Ngoma Tradition

VIBEKE MARIA VIESTAD

The Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa through political, economic, interpretive and environmental lenses.

Historical collections show that Bushman dress was an embodied practice of social relations. $30.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4191-3

ROBERT THORNTON

$30.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4018-3

Conspicuous Consumption in Africa Edited by DEBORAH POSEL and ILANA VAN WYK

Revisiting Thorstein Veblen’s concept, this volume grapples with contemporary conspicuous consumption in Africa, its history and how it relates to the project of African modernity. $35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-364-1

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ALSO OF INTEREST

Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences Case studies from South Africa Edited by SUMAYA LAHER, ANGELO FYNN and SHERIANNE KRAMER

Demonstrates the variety of research methods available to researchers responding to context-bound issues in the global South. $40.00 • 528 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-275-0

AFRICAN HISTORY Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa Past and Present Edited by BHEKIZIZWE PETERSON, BRIAN WILLAN, and JANET REMMINGTON

Sheds new light on Native Life appearing at a critical historical juncture, and reflects on how to read it in South Africa’s heightened challenges today.

Between Worlds German Missionaries and the Transition from Mission to Bantu Education in South Africa LINDA CHISHOLM

Scrutinizes the experience, complexities and paradoxes in German mission society education. $30.00 • 240 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4174-6

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Writing the Ancestral River

These Oppressions Won’t Cease

A Biography of the Kowie

The Political Thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777 - 1879: An Anthology

JACKLYN COCK

An illuminating and unusual biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape.

ROBERT ROSS

The essential documents of Khoesan history of political thought and resistance to colonial oppression in the 1800s in South Africa.

$30.00 • 204 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4187-6

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L AW The State of Secularism

We, the People

Religion, Tradition and Democracy in South Africa

Insights of an Activist Judge

DHAMMAMEGHA ANNIE LEATT

A history of global political secularism comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa.

A stirring collection of public talks and essays by an activist and former judge offers an intimate insider’s view of South Africa’s Constitution.

$30.00 • 248 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4057-2

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ALBIE SACHS

Competition Law and Economic Regulation Addressing Market Power in Southern Africa Edited by JONATHAN KLAAREN, SIMON ROBERTS, and IMRAAN VALODIA

A critical assessment of the efficacy of the competition and economic regulation frameworks, including the impact of a number of the regional competition authorities in a range of sectors throughout southern Africa.

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POLITICS Racism after Apartheid

Power in Action

Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism

Democracy, citizenship and social justice

Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR

STEVEN FRIEDMAN

Examines post-apartheid racism and relations of oppression, and challenges Marxism and antiracism to take these lived realities seriously.

Argues that South Africans, like everyone else, need democracy because it offers the tools needed to fight for a fairer and more equal society.

$35.00 • 288 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-307-8

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The Climate Crisis

Shadow State

South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives

The Politics of State Capture IVOR CHIPKIN, MARK SWILLING, HAROON BHORAT, MZUKISI QOBO, SIKHULEKILE DUMA, LUMKILE MONDI, CAMAREN PETER, MBONGISENI BUTHELEZI, HANNAH FRIEDENSTEIN, and NICKY PRINS

Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR

An investigation of emerging ecosocialist alternatives. $40.00 • 368 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4054-1

A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society. $35.00 • 176 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4212-5

Fees Must Fall

Ties that Bind

Student Revolt, Decolonisation and Governance in South Africa

Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa

Edited by SUSAN BOOYSEN

Edited by WALSH & SOSKE

Maps the student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt.

Intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance within the histories of apartheid and colonialism.

$35.00 • 300 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4985-8

$35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4968-1

Stopping the Spies Constructing and Resisting the Surveillance State in South Africa JANE DUNCAN

Questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state. $30 .00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4215-6

New South African Review 6 The Crisis of Inequality Edited by GILBERT KHADIAGALA, SARAH MOSOETSA, DEVAN PILLAY, and ROGER SOUTHALL

Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy. $35.00 • 304 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4055-8

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POLITICAL THEORY The Unresolved National Question in South Africa Left Thought Under Apartheid and Beyond Edited by EDWARD WEBSTER & KARIN PAMPALLIS

This volume examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addressed the National Question.

What is Slavery to Me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa PUMLA DINEO GQOLA

Examines the relevance and effects of slave memory for contemporary negotiations of South African gendered and racialised identities. $30.00 • 256 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4507-2

$35.00 • 336 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4022-0

Race Otherwise

Remains of the Social

Forging a New Humanism for South Africa

Desiring the Post-Apartheid

ZIMITRI ERASMUS

Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race. $30.00 • 232 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4058-9

Edited by MAURITS VAN BEVER DONKER, ROSS TRUSCOTT, PREMESH LALU & GARY MINKLEY

An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid. $35.00 • 334 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-7761-4030-5

Thinking Freedom in Africa Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics MICHAEL NEOCOSMOS

Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’. $35.00 • 650 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4866-0

Capitalism’s Crises

Regarding Muslims From Slavery to Post-Apartheid GABEBA BADEROON

An analysis of the role of Muslims from South Africa’s founding to the present and points to the resonance of these discussions beyond South Africa. $30.00 • 228 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-8681-4769-4

Decolonisation in Universities

Class Struggles in South Africa and the World

The Politics of Curriculum

Edited by VISHWAS SATGAR

Edited by JONATHAN JANSEN

The second volume in the Democratic Marxism provides compelling analyses of the complexity and depth of the worldwide economic crisis. $35.00 • 312 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-86814-920-9

Combining conceptual analyses and novel case studies, this volume brings together the best minds in curriculum theory to address the question: What exactly is decolonisation? $35.00 • 320 PAGES PAPER • 978-1-77614-335-1

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